Laura Letinsky: I Did Not Remember I Had Forgotten

These lush color photographs are the latest images from her ongoing series Morning and Melancholia, featuring the artist’s new fascination with sweets within the still-life context. Drawing on the classical arrangements of Dutch-Flemish still-life paintings, her photographs explore the domestic objects that are touched, devoured, and discarded. “By photographing the remains of a meal,” Letinsky says, “I am exploring the formal relationships between ripeness and decay, delicacy and awkwardness, control and haphazardness, waste and plenitude, pleasure and sustenance.”